CVE-2009-3613

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-10-19

Description

The swiotlb functionality in the r8169 driver in drivers/net/r8169.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IOMMU space exhaustion and system crash) by using jumbo frames for a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by a flood ping.

See more information about CVE-2009-3613 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-1671	2009-12-16
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-1671	2009-12-16
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-1671	2009-12-16
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-1548	2009-11-03
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-1548	2009-11-03
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-1548	2009-11-03

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